10.10.1 Severly Slows VMWare 7 (?)

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10.10.1 Severly Slows VMWare 7 (?)

After installing 10.10.1 (as an update to 10.10) all VMs of my Fusion 7.0.1 are plagued with massive performance drops.

Could be a coincidence with something else, but it's pretty cut & dry in my mind. They worked. I updated. They don't work (well).

Startup of Win7 and Linux VMS is taking several times longer than normal. Openeing even a file system window can take a minute. Etc. etc.

I've restarted the Mac and the VMS (guest OS restart, not just suspend). No help.

Re-install of VMTools does not help.

I will get around to installing a new VM from scratch to see what happens, but I wanted to know if anyone else might be seeing this?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Fusion 7.0.1

Posted on Nov 17, 2014 6:23 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 17, 2014 8:20 PM in response to Greg Willits

Think we may need to wait for vmware to fix

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_larry__

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Nov 18, 2014 7:23 AM in response to Greg Willits

Yep! Me too! Before at 10.10 it worked. Upgraded 10.10.1 on my iMac with 32 GB of memory (it only runs Fusion for my VMs) and suddenly its so slow.

I will try going back to 10.10 to see (if I have time today)

L

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mufb74

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Nov 18, 2014 3:57 PM in response to _larry__

According to a VMware tech, this is an issue with Yosemite. VMware has made Apple aware of the issue. These are the instructions I received from the tech

Run the command:

sudo nvram -d boot-args

and restart your iMac, this will help reset the boot arguments on the host.

Now after the restart run the command:

sudo nvram boot-args=debug="0x10"

and restart your iMac once again and see if the same helps resolve the issue.

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